Ultrabay Hard Drives -- Opinions Needed

[none]

I was wondering if anyone here is using an Ultrabay 2000 or Ultrabay Slim hard drive... I was thinking of adding one to my T30 or T41p (when it arrives from eBay). I imagine it should make a huge difference in graphics apps and even general use -- pretty much anywhere where a swap file is used.

Does anyone here run an UltraBay HDD on a nearly permenant configuration? Does it provide enough bandwidth to take advantage of a 7200RPM drive? What about the heat, or the noise?

Also, what kind of drive would you advice I use? I was thinking of a Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 or E7K60.. Although I recently found out that my T30 has a Toshiba drive, and it has served extremely reliably as well.. Any recommendations?

Thanks!

[dr.b]

I´m using a 5.4k Toshiba in a slimbay.
There is no performance loss, and in fact it´s not much slower than the 7.2k hitachi. Even under heavy use the drives is still below 48 °C. Noise..hm, not more or less.
Just do it, the bay is the best place for a second drive .

[MadeInJapan]

With my T30 I use a ultrabay 2000 2nd HDD adapter with an IBM Travelstar 40Gig HDD. It works very well. I don't have it in there permanently though. I use this drive to ghost my C drive once a week. I used to use my floppy drive with parallel port adapter cable to do this but recently figured out how to use a flash memory USB key to do the same thing. I really like the set-up and would use another HDD for applications and data if I were ever to run low on space on my C drive.